Few mail-order nurseries provide the detail as shown in my rose or heather galleries.

If you want to sell a product, it is best to display it. When I sold my Transit van, I removed its signage, cleaned it and took photos of the inside and outside before putting them onto an advert in Autotrader amongst more than 2000 other Transit vans - it was sold in 20 minutes.

If mail-order nurseries could put photos to the same complexity from start of the year to its end with the different foliage colours and stages of flowering on Wikimedia Commons, then the world could view the plant before buying it, and idiots like me would have valid material to work with.

I have been in the trade (until ill health forced my Sole Trader retirement in 2013) working in designing, constructing and maintaining private gardens for decades and since 2005 when this site was started, I have asked any nursery in the world to supply photos. R.V. Roger in Yorkshire allowed me to use his photos from his website in 2007 and when I got a camera to spend 5 days in July 2014 at my expense taking photos of his roses growing in his nursery field, whilst his staff was propagating them. I gave him a copy of those photos.

A tuberous-rooted plant for summer flowering. The hybrids mentioned alongside are exquisite and will amply repay the little trouble needed to grow them.

Pot, from January-March, 6 tubers into a 6-inch (15 cms) pan, using a compost similar to that proscribed for Begonias. Plant at 1 inch (2.5 cms) depth.

Water. Keep the soil moist, but not wet, at all times until flowering is over. Water must then be reduced. When the leaves are dead, keep the tubers quite dry.

Fertilisers. Water in, from time to time, a complete fertiliser as soon as there is a good root development.

Temperature. 60 degrees Fahrenheit (16 degrees Celsius)

Position. South Window or where there is ample light. Shade from bright sunshine.

Resting. When dry, the tubers can either remain in the pans or be lifted and stored in dry sand. In either case they should not be stored where excessive cold or frost is likely to harm them.

General. Achimenes tend to soft growth and need early support. The stems are very slender. They can be useful and decorative in hanging pots.

GrandifloraThe stems are sturdier than most. Leaves velvet-textured with brown on the inner side. Flowers, resembling those of the Gloxina (to which Achimenes are related), are tubular and crimson red. 18 inches (45 cms) high. Flowers in October.

Colchicums flower from late August to late October and produce their leaves during the spring following their flowering. They are lifted in normal seasons during July. Therefore it is most important for the grower to order these bulbs early, otherwise by the end of August he will find them almost unobtainable.

Pot in late July or early August, using John Innes compost, putting 2 bulbs in a 5 inch (12.5 cms) or 3 in a 7 inch (17.5 cms) pot.

Water sparingly at all times, but without allowing the soil to become dry.

Position. They will do best in a moderately cool and semi-shady position.

Pot either 1 bulb in a 4.5-inch (11.25 cms) pot or 3 in a 6-inch (15 cms) pot during August until November. Plant to a depth so that from a third to a quarter of the bulb remains above soil level. Use either John Innes compost or a mixture of 2 parts sandy loam, 1 part decayed cow-dung and 1 part coarse sand.

Water. Iits natural state the Nerine succeeds under completely arid conditions for one half of the year and follows this with a very high water-requirements for the second half. Under house conditions, therefore, it is best to give water in moderate quantities at the first signs of the flower spikes, but during the resting time, from May till September, it should be kept quite dry.

Fertilisers. These, in the form of the normal feeding to other bulbs, can be applied with the waterings.

Temperature. 45-50 degrees Fahrenheit (7-10 degrees Celsius).

Position. When grown in pots, the Nerine is very suitable for porch or conservatory decoration. In the living-room, it should be placed in full light by a south or west window.

Flowering. Dependent upon the variety and planting time, it will flower from July to October. But only 1 variety is recommended for general use.

Repot. The bulbs may remain in the pots for 3 years before needing repotting.

Bowdeni Fenwick's Var.Self rose-pink. This variety is quite hardy and does not lose its leaves after flowering. 24 inches (60 cms). September-October.

STAGE 4B 12 FOLIAGE COLOURS PER MONTH INDEX GALLERYDeciduous Shrubs or Trees, Herbaceous Perennials or Bulbs- if that changes from the main colour for instance to a different autumn colour, then it will be in this column and the relevant colour for those months of Win (Winter), Spr (Spring), Sum (Summer) or Aut (Autumn) group as well.Evergreen Shrubs or Trees, Evergreen Perennials - if that changes from the main colour for instance to a different autumn colour, then it will be in this column and the relevant colour for those months of Win (Winter), Spr (Spring), Sum (Summer) or Aut (Autumn) group as well.

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Scented Flora of the World by Roy Genders - was first published in 1977 and this paperback edition was published on 1 August 1994 ISBN 0 7090 5440 8:-This comprehensive book looks at scented flowers and leaves of plants from all over the world. The work has been prepared to the standards of the Index Kewensis, and is filled with the most interesting facts about the scented flora of the world.

I am using the above book from someone who took 30 years to compile it from notes made of his detailed observations of growing plants in preference to The RHS Companion to Scented Plants Hardcover – 16 Oct 2014 by Stephen Lacey (Author), Andrew Lawson (Photographer) ISBN 978-0-7112-3574-8 even though this is the only major reference work on scent and scented plants which is endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society. See reasons for stopping infilling of previous Sense of Fragrance section on 28/07/2016 at end of Sense of Fragrance from Stephen Lacey Page.

The Propagation of Alpines by Lawrence D. Hills. Published in 1950 by Faber and Faber Limited describes every method of propagation for 2,500 species. Unlike modern books published since 1980, this one states exactly what to do and is precisely what you require if you want to increase your alpines.

Ramblers Scramblers & Twiners by Michael Jefferson-Brown (ISBN 0 - 7153 - 0942 - 0) describes how to choose, plant and nurture over 500 high-performance climbing plants and wall shrubs, so that more can be made of your garden if you think not just laterally on the ground but use the vertical support structures including the house as well.

Colour All The Year In My Garden: A selection of choice varieties - annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, climbers and trees and shrubs - that will give a continuity of colour in the garden throughout the year. Edited by C.H. Middleton. Gardening Book from Ward, Lock & Co published in 1938, provides plant data for a calendar of plants in bloom throughout the year and for those in the smallest garden.The Book of Bulbs by S. Arnott, F.R.H.S. Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh in 1901. This provides data about Hardy Bulbs, Half-Hardy Bulbs, Greenhouse and Stove Bulbs.

Collins Guide to Bulbs by Patrick M. Synge. ISBN 0 00 214016-0 First Edition 1961, Second Edition 1971, Reprinted 1973. This provides data on bulbs for bedding, bulbs in the border, bulbs naturalised in grass, bulbs in the woodland garden, bulbs in the rock garden, bulbs in pans in the alpine house, bulbs in the greenhouse, bulbs in bowls and the bulb frame.

Annuals & Biennials, the best annual and biennial plants and their uses in the garden by Gertrude Jekyll published in 1916 and republished by Forgotten Books in 2012 (Forgotten Booksis a London-based book publisher specializing in the restoration of old books, both fiction and non-fiction. Today we have 372,702 books available to read online, download as ebooks, or purchase in print.).

The following table shows the linkages for the information about the plants described in Sanders' Encyclopedia of Gardening in The Gardeners' Golden Treasury, revised by A. G. L Hellyer F.L.S, Editor of 'Amateur Gardening', (thirty-first impression of original published in 1895) was published in 1960 by W. H. & L. Collingridge Limited, between:-

Stage 3a - All Plants Index Gallery with each plant species in its own Plant Type Page followed by choice from Stage 4a, 4b, 4c and/or 4d REMEMBERING THE CONSTRAINTS ON THE SELECTION FROM THE CHOICES MADE IN STAGES 1 AND 2 (in this Table)

Stage 3b - All2 Plants Index Gallery for Alpines without a Garden for your health and productivity (in this Table)

Stage 4b - 12 Foliage Colours per Month Index Gallery (in Table on right) with column for Deciduous / Herbaceous plants with the same foliage colour during their growing season andcolumn for Evergreen plants with the same foliage colour during the entire year

STAGE 1 GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERYIt would be useful if when you decide to change your garden that you use a uniform garden style throughout your garden and the GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY aims to provide pointers. The new pages (April 2016) in the gallery will have a suitable list of plants on each page (as that plant gets further detailed in the ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERY), then each row containing that plant name in the GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY will also be updated. I aim to input details of plants starting with A in alphabetical order to Z.

Cannot be bothered. If you wish to improve your productivity and health, then, plant an Alpine Pan in your work area or at home using the information within Alpines without a Garden by Lawrence D. Hills, using these pages:-

You need to know the following:-1. How much time per week are you prepared to look after your garden or prepared to pay someone else to do it for you?2. How much are you are prepared to spend on creating your garden and then on its maintenance for its feeding and replacement of its plants and hard landscaping?3. In order for you to go into your garden, there must be mystery in it, so that from any position in the house you cannot see all the garden, otherwise you will not be tempted to go out into it.4. You must decide what garden style you are going to use THROUGHOUT the garden and make sure of using 3. the mystery in it as well.5. What plants do you want to keep in your existing garden and incorporate into your new garden?6. What Human Problems do you have and what Site Problems are there?

Whether your Heavy Clay or Light Sandy / Chalk Soil is excessively Alkaline (limy) / Acidic or not, then there is an Action Plan for you to do with your soil, which will improve its texture to make its structure into a productive soil instead of it returning to being just sand, chalk, silt or clay.

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Problems caused by builders:- 1. Lack of soil on top of builders rubble in garden of just built house. 2. Clay soil of Garden slopes towards house with no drainage of this rainwater by the house wall.

In planning your beds for your garden, before the vertical hard-landscaping framework and the vertical speciman planting is inserted into your soft landscaping plan, the following is useful to consider:-1. The ground plan usually depends upon 1 or more unalterable existing features. The position of the doors of the house will dictate the positions of paths, the shortest route to the kitchen may indicate the best place for a paved area for eating and drinking out of doors, or the kept trees/shrubs may indicate what garden style is used.2. Rules of Proportion - A. A border should be roughly 1/2 as wide as the hedge or wall behind it.B. The proportion of planted areas to paved or turfed areas should be 1/3 to 2/3, or a 1/4 to 3/4, not 1/2 and 1/2.C. Within a bed or border, unless a 2-dimensional pattern on the ground is the objective, the height and bulk of the plants should be varied to avoid monotony; it is particularly important to provide strong planting, in terms of either height or bulk or both, at either end of a long bed.D. The ground surface provides a background to the plants that is as important as the hedges, walls or fences that surround it. Grass is perhaps the most satisfying carpet to use, the cool green forming a restful antidote to the dancing colours of the flowers. Use different coloured pea-shingle inside Cedar Gravel for people in wheelchairs, or infirm in their legs or who suffer from Hay Fever.

Reasons for stopping infilling of Sense of Fragrance section on 28/07/2016 at end of Sense of Fragrance from Stephen Lacey Page. From September 2017 will be creating the following new pages on Sense of Fragrance using Scented Flora of the World by Roy Genders. ISBN 0 7090 5440 8:-

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After you have selected your vertical hard-landscaping framework and the vertical speciman plants for each bed or border, you will need to infill with plants taking the following into account:-

STAGE 3a ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERYClick on Blue or underlined text to jump to page comparing flower thumbnails of that blue colour in the Other Plant Photo Galleries. RedPP is Red, Pink, Purple and Other is Unusual or Other Flower Colour.

Finally, you might be advised to check that the adjacent plants to the one you have chosen for that position in a flower bed are suitable; by checking the entry in Companion Planting - like clicking A page for checking Abies - and Pest Control page if you have a pest to control in this part of the flower bed.Companion Planting- A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, ZPest Control using Plants

STAGE 3a ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERYIn addition to these 10 galleries, there are links to the Other Plant Photo Galleries in the table above like Bulb, which have plant descriptions accessed by clicking a flower thumbnail in its flower comparison page.Click the respective flower colour - likeGreen - to change page to that flower colour comparison page. Then, you can also choose these other plants.It will also state the Plant Combinations for each plant from The Ulimate Visual Guide to Successful Plant Harmony - The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations by Tony Lord ISBN 1-55209-623-8

STAGE 4C CULTIVATION, POSITION, USE GALLERYSome extra details about the Cultivation Requirements of Plant:- Outdoor /Garden Cultivation, Indoor / House Cultivation, Cool Green-house Cultivation with artificial heating in the Winter, Conservatory Cultivation with heating throughout the year, and Stovehouse Cultivation with heating throughout the year for Tropical Plants

Since 2006, I have requested photos etc from the Mail-Order Nurseries in the UK and later from the rest of the World. Few nurseries have responded.I worked for a lady, who with her husband took 35 mm slides of plants in the 1960's and 1970's. She allowed me to digitise some of her Kodachrome slides, which I have used in my website. I discovered that at least the green colour of the foliage became very much darker over that period of years to 2008, by comparing wildflower photos from her slides with digital photos supplied by a current Wildflower mail-order nursery, so I stopped creating my Foliage Galleries.I bought myself a camera some years ago and started taking photos, some of which have been put into the website. I started taking photos of the Heathers at the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley garden. I have displayed the Heathers foliage in closeup since their leaves are 2mm long and in macro-scale in the Heather Galleries - sometimes the foliage colour at the terminal end of the foliage stem is only a few leaves, whereas others have the same foliage colour throughout the stem. I discovered that some of the heathers did not have the correct plant label, since the flower colour did not correspond with the flower colour in the literature. I was informed that since kids have free rein, that perhaps they move the plant labels. Since, I cannot rely that the heather plant label next to the heather plant is valid, I have stopped taking photos of those heathers.This leaves a small problem, especially since very few gardens open to the public have their plants labelled so that the public can use the data on their label to buy that named plant from a nursery or garden centre. Currently (June 2018) I insert photos from Wikimedia Commons as well as my own.I have found the above book - which does not contain any colour plant photos. Since it had the following experts help in creating it, I have decided to use its information in these 10 galleries to help the public:-

T.W. Sanders Editor of Amateur Gardening in 1895.

A.J Macself Editor of Amateur Gardening in 1926 - both Sanders and Macself had worked entirely to the handlists published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

A.G.L. Hellyer in this work of revision and also in checking the all-important cultural notes sought the help of experts in the various classes of plant:-

Mr S.A. Pearce, Assistant Curator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew undertook the revision of those genera of plants which in this country are mainly grown under glass.

Mr Will Ingwersen dealt with the Rock plants,

Mr N. Catchpole made himself responsible for trees and shrubs;

Mr G.A Phillips for herbaceous plants,

Mrs Francis Perry for water plants,

Mr A.J. Macself for ferns,

Mr E. Cooper for orchids,

Mr J.S Dakers for annuals,

Miss Doreen Crowther for fruit and vegetables

with the aid of further information from other books, magazines and cross-checking on the internet. In this edition of the book Sander's Encyclopaedia, the individual soil mixtures to grow plants have been retained, for it was considered that many gardeners might still wish to use them in certain circumstances. The John Innes mixtures may be substituted wherever desired. Details of these individual mixtures will be put into these galleries.